Copyright 2026, Documentary Educational Resources https://store.der.org/wyatt-olivia-c367all.aspx Mon, 21 Sep 2026 05:49:15 GMT 60 Nexternal RSS 2.0 en-us https://store.der.org/sailing-a-sinking-sea-p366.aspx Product366 Tue, 28 Aug 2018 07:45:00 GMT <div style="float:left"><a class="url" href="https://store.der.org/sailing-a-sinking-sea-p366.aspx"><img src="//cdn.nexternal.com/der/images/sailing-a-sinking-sea.jpg" alt="Sailing a Sinking Sea" border="0" hspace="3"></a></div><span class="riRssTitle"><a href="https://store.der.org/sailing-a-sinking-sea-p366.aspx">Sailing a Sinking Sea</a></span><br><a href="https://store.der.org/sailing-a-sinking-sea-p366.aspx">Buy Now:</a> <span color="#990000"><b>$320.00</b></span> <br /><br /><div><i>Sailing A Sinking Sea</i> is a feature-length experimental documentary exploring the culture of the Moken people of Burma and Thailand. The Moken are a seafaring community and one of the smallest ethnic minority groups in Asia, traditionally spending eight months out of the year in thatch-roofed wooden boats. Wholly reliant upon the sea, their entire belief system revolves around water.&nbsp;<div><br /></div><div><i>Sailing A Sinking Sea </i>weaves a visual and aural tapestry of Moken mythologies and present-day practices. As a viewer you will swim under the sea past fishes and mermaids, sail boats across turquoise waters, land on 13 different islands, step inside sea shanties on stilts, delve into the minds of shamans, become possessed through the worship of sea gods, dance between lovers and emerge drenched in Moken mythology.</div><div><br /></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div>“This loving impressionistic tribute is [...] an outlier in contemporary cinema, springing as it does from the 1930s ethnographic cinema of Robert Flaherty as well as the later visions of Jean Rouch in the '60s and Robert Gardner (who's cited in the credits) in the '70s and '80s.” — Carson Lund,&nbsp;<i><a href="https://www.slantmagazine.com/house/article/sxsw-2015-the-nightmare-god-bless-the-child-sailing-a-sinking-sea">Slant Magazine</a></i></div></blockquote><div><br /></div><div><hr><br /></div><div><b>SELECTED SCREENINGS &amp; AWARDS</b></div><div>Taiwan International Ethnographic Film Festival, 2017</div><div><div style="">SXSW, Austin, TX 2015</div><div style="">Hot Docs, Toronto, Canada 2015</div><div style="">Maryland Film Festival, 2015</div><div style="">Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, IL, 2015</div><div style="">Rural Route Film Festival, Museum of the Moving Image, New York, NY, 2015</div><div style="">Environmental Film Festival, Australia, 2015</div><div style="">Camden International Film Festival, Camden, ME, 2015</div><div style="">Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, Hot Springs, AR, 2015</div><div style="">Margaret Mead Film Festival, New York, NY, 2015</div><div style="">Denver Film Festival, Denver, CO, 2015</div><div style="">Cucalorous Film Festival, Wilmington, NC, 2015</div><div style="">Singapore International Film Festival, 2015</div></div><br /><br />Visit <a href="https://store.der.org/wyatt-olivia-c367all.aspx">Wyatt, Olivia</a> to see additional products in this category.</div>